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Big Win For Coleman
PewerLine ^ | 2/3/08 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 02/03/2009 1:24:30 PM PST by Buck W.

This report (link), hot off the press, signifies a victory for Norm Coleman in the election contest with Al Franken: the court hearing the contest has ruled that "all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the voter." Franken has been trying to prevent a number of ballots that complied with state law from being counted.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; bogusarticletitle; chads; coleman; congress; corruption; democrats; election2008; electionfollies; franken; hangingchads; mexesota; minnesota; mn2008
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To: Buck W.

>>the court hearing the contest has ruled that “all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the vote<<

Why on earth should it take a court to rule that - that should be standard operating procedure.


41 posted on 02/03/2009 2:05:18 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: MrB
With Coleman, instead of a real conservative, they'll have it intermittently.

Better than Franken though...

42 posted on 02/03/2009 2:05:18 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: MrB

I agree. I’ve thought that for some time. They can’t decide which would be worse... the republican (who’s a nice fellow that everybody likes), or the a-hole, scumbag, washed-up comedian hack that has a tendency to fly into rages in public. I figured they’d hold their nose and seat Frank-in-further, but he may have p-o’d somebody big.


43 posted on 02/03/2009 2:05:34 PM PST by ichabod1 (Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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To: MrB
From what I can tell,the dems want their 60,but they don’t want the clown.

Can the dems be blamed for trying to shed Franken's mind-numbing idiocy from their ranks?

This image of a Democrat Senator would haunt the halls of the United States Senate until the end of time.


44 posted on 02/03/2009 2:06:35 PM PST by henbane
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

But we have to have at least the THREAT of a fillie or we’ll really be flat on our backs with our legs in the... uh... I better leave it at that.


45 posted on 02/03/2009 2:06:48 PM PST by ichabod1 (Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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To: Chet 99
Is there any reason to believe those ballots might help Coleman?

Armed Forces ballots from Iraq would be absentees and predominantly Coleman I would imagine. Hopefully that is what these are.

46 posted on 02/03/2009 2:08:47 PM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: Joe Boucher

Folks who take vacations often are business owners (Republicans).

???


47 posted on 02/03/2009 2:09:56 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Buck W.

We don’t need another bad comedian in Washington.


48 posted on 02/03/2009 2:10:56 PM PST by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: Buck W.

Do they include military ballots?


49 posted on 02/03/2009 2:14:29 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: MrB
From what I can tell,
the dems want their 60,
but they don’t want the clown.

Why not? He'd match the other 58 or 59 clowns already in the Senate.

50 posted on 02/03/2009 2:15:27 PM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: ichabod1

Bama will just have to appoint another sitting pub senator to his cabinet.


51 posted on 02/03/2009 2:17:10 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: Drill Thrawl

Haven’t you heard the old lines,”Republicans are business folks”. Business travel and private travel?
If that be true then Coleman has a chance.


52 posted on 02/03/2009 2:24:30 PM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: ChocChipCookie

because they were for coleman


53 posted on 02/03/2009 2:25:29 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Grace = unmerited favor; Mercy = punishment withheld)
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To: freekitty

If a majority of them are Military ballots, NORM wins!


54 posted on 02/03/2009 2:28:02 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Keep plenty of food and batteries on hand.)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

perfect cartoon


55 posted on 02/03/2009 2:37:41 PM PST by SueRae
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye

I wanted to be sure that you didn’t miss this. Pray!


56 posted on 02/03/2009 2:39:40 PM PST by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ If Roe v. Wade would have been 10 years earlier, Nobama would NEVER have been born)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Military votes?

Franken is such a weasel, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.


57 posted on 02/03/2009 2:49:43 PM PST by Just Lori (Liberalism ---->Socialism----->Communism------>BONDAGE!!!!)
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To: Chet 99
Is there any reason to believe those ballots might help Coleman?

I believe a lot of the ballots that have been disputed were mail-in ballots.

Mail-in ballots, in Texas, and I think in Minnesota, have an outside "carrier" envelope, then an inside envelope. The carrier envelope has the signature of the voter, and whatever else information the law requires. On election day, the carrier envelopes that are deemed to be valid are opened, and the interior envelopes, which have no markings, are mixed together, then opened and counted, which preserves the confidentially of the vote. The carrier envelopes which are rejected are not opened, so you don't know who the voter voted for.

Per previous posts by Powerline, Franken's campaign did a great job, and Coleman's campaign did a pi@@ poor job, of contacting the voters whose carrier envelopes were deemed to have not complied with the law, and whose votes were never counted. Everyone who told Franken that they voted for him was noted by the Franken campaign, and the Franken campaign immediately went to bat to get those votes accepted and counted in the recount. Coleman, by and large, did not do that, so he did not know which carrier envelopes to try and get counted during the recount process.

Thus, since Franken has already cherry picked the carrier envelopes for "his" voters, the balance of them should favor Coleman.

Does that mean that Coleman can convince the Court that the carrier envelopes were improperly rejected, and get them opened? Who knows. It does appear to mean that he will have a shot at it, and his hopes, while still dimly flickering, are brighter than they were.

58 posted on 02/03/2009 2:54:59 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: Buck W.

“There are almost 5000 ballots that are put back in play as a result. Coleman may still have a chance. “

Where are they from?


59 posted on 02/03/2009 3:02:50 PM PST by DemonDeac
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To: Buck W.

He may not have a chance of winning, but he’s still doing the lord’s work. Dems need to know their limits.


60 posted on 02/03/2009 3:05:59 PM PST by dr_who
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